[1585/12/73]¹

Ratification of the act of parliament made in favour of Sir James Balfour's wife and bairns

²Our sovereign lord and his three estates of parliament ratify and approve and, for his highness and his successors, perpetually confirm the act of his highness's parliament held at Edinburgh, the [...] day of May 1584, concerning the memory of the late Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, knight, his wife, bairns, heir and posterity, with all conditions, clauses and circumstances thereof, likewise the said act in the self at more length purports, the whole tenor whereof is held here as repeated, and ordain the same to stand in full force and strength and to have due execution as is appropriate.